Mott MacDonald in the UK has formed a group with Anglian Water, Skanska, Transport for London, UKCRIC and the UK Green Building Council to identify and begin tackling the infrastructure industry’s key challenges in the UK, to create a climate stable future.

The companies acknowledge that an urgent transformation of the UK’s infrastructure is required to respond to climate change.

The government has legislated to build a net-zero economy by 2050. By doing so, the UK will not only end its contribution to further global warming but position itself as an international leader exploiting the economic and societal opportunities presented by this generational mission.

The coalition is focussed on how the net-zero transformation can be achieved.

The coalition’s objectives are to:

• Identify the necessary enabling environment (policies, incentives and regulations) to deliver net-zero while minimising costs and maximising wider environmental, social and economic benefits across all regions of the UK.
• Develop a practical understanding of the urgent activities and critical paths for the most difficult (and often least-understood) areas of new economic infrastructure required for net-zero, such as net-zero industrial clusters, the hydrogen economy and nation-wide electric vehicle charging.
• Bring a collaborative, mission-oriented whole-system approach (based on systems thinking and systems engineering principles) to all aspects of planning and delivering infrastructure for net-zero, recognising the interactions between infrastructure sectors.
• Provide a collaborative hub for infrastructure industry efforts on net-zero, convene cross-sector expertise in partnership with government and mobilise and communicate industry action on net-zero.